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• A fragment of the prison experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman : (Order from Stella Comyn, 1919), by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kate O'Hare's prison letters. (Appeal to Reason, 1919), by Kate Richards O'Hare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody (redacted unclassified version; 2008), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • PDF at senate.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Open Letter to President Harding, by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF page images at MSU)
• Political prisoners : racism and the politics of imprisonment (The Council?], 1981), by United States. National Minority Advisory Council on Criminal Justice, A.L. Nellum and Associates, and United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political prisoners in federal military prisons. (National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1918), by National Civil Liberties Bureau (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public opinion : where does it stand on the question of amnesty of political prisoners? (Printing and Publishing Workers Industrial Union No. 450, 1923), by Industrial Workers of the World (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amnesty for political prisoners : address delivered in Washington, D. C. on April 17, 1919 (National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1919), by Judah Leon Magnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Financial statement of the League for the Amnesty of Political Prisoners : from February 26, 1918 to March 10, 1920. (League for the Amnesty of Political Prisoners, 1920), by League for the Amnesty of Political Prisoners (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Prisoner in Communist East Germany. : Testimony of Dr. Walter Steinberg: hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee To Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Eighty-Fifth Congress, second session, on July 15, 1958. (U.S. G.P.O., 1958), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sixty- Sixth Congress, third session, on Dec. 21, 1920, Jan. 6, 19, Feb. 16, 1921. (U.S. G.P.O., 1920), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Soviet of Deer Island, Boston Harbor, January-February, 1920 (Boston Branch of American Civil Liberties Union, 1920), by Bogdan Svobodny and American Civil Liberties Union. Boston Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free the polticial prisoners! ([1921], 1921), by Industrial Workers of the World (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Modern Purgatory, by Carlo de Fornaro (Gutenberg ebook)

• Fourteen months in American bastiles. (Kelly, Hedian & Piet, 1863), by F. K. Howard and Samuel Gardner Drake Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discharge of state prisoners. (Towers & Co., printers, 1862), by Joseph A. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tupelo (State Journal Company, Printers, 1888), by John H. Aughey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, Together With Foreword by Chairman Feinstein, and Additional and Minority Views (redacted declassified summary version released 2014), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, contrib. by Dianne Feinstein, John D. Rockefeller, Ron Wyden, Mark Udall, Martin Heinrich, Angus King, Susan Collins, Saxby Chambliss, Richard M. Burr, James E. Risch, Daniel R. Coats, Marco Rubio, and Tom A. Coburn (PDF at senate.gov)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)

• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)

• Prosecuting terrorists : civilian and military trials for GTMO and beyond : hearing before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security [sic] of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 28, 2009. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• Amnesty for Political Prisoners : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Sixty-Seventh Congress, second session, on Mar. 16, 1922. (U.S. G.P.O., 1922), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Stolen Years (Cleveland: Pennington Press, c1959), by Roger Touhy, contrib. by Ray Brennan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes of an exile to Van Dieman's Land comprising the incidents of the Canadian Rebellion in 1838, trial of the author in Canada, and subsequent appearance before Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, in London, imprisonment in England, and transportation to Van Dieman's Land : also an account of the horrible sufferings endured by ninety political prisoners during a residence of six years in that land of British slavery, together with sketches of the isand, its history, productions, inhabitants, &c. &c. (s.n.], 1846), by Linus W. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Z doby persekucí a kriminálů : vzpomínky českých novinářů a literátů (Nakl. B. Kočí, 1920), by Vincenc Červinka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A second chronicle of jails (The Talbot press, 1919), by Darrell Figgis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La Roquette. Hommage à Notre-Dame-des-victoires, et souvenir affectueux à tous mes chers compagnons d'infortune. Journées des 24, 25, 26, 27 & 28 mai 1871. (P. M. Laroche, 1871), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Christian von Gehrens, Pfarrers des Kirchspiels Felsberg und Altenburg, unter der vormaligen königlich westphälischen Regierung erlittene dreimalige Verhaftung und Exportation : als Beytrag zur Charakteristick der geheimen Policey von Ihm selbst beschrieben. Voran einige Bemerkungen über die im Jahr 1809 im Königreiche Westphalen ausgebrochene Insurrektion (K.C. von Gehren, 1815), by Karl Christian von Gehren (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Roquette. Hommage à Notre-Dame-des-victoires et souvenir affectueux à tous mes braves compagnons de captivité. Journées des 24, 25, 26, 27 et 28 mai 1871. (P. M. Laroche, 1873), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs d'un déporté; étapes d'un forçat politique. (E. Dentu, 1880), by Simon Mayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Roquette (Casterman, 1877), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendice à La Roquette (Lecoffre, 1889), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Bastille am Plötzensee; Blätter aus meinem Gefängniss-Tagebuch. (W. Bracke, 1876), by Johann Joseph Most (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Christian von Gehrens, Pfarrers des Kirchspiels Felsberg und Altenburg, unter der vormaligen königlich westphälischen Regierung erlittene dreimalige Verhaftung und Exportation : als Beytrag zur Charakteristick der geheimen Policey von Ihm selbst beschrieben. Voran einige Bemerkungen über die im Jahr 1809 im Königreiche Westphalen ausgebrochene Insurrektion (K.C. von Gehren, 1815), by Karl Christian von Gehren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Bastille am Plötzensee : Blätter aus meinem Gefängniss-Tagebuch. (W. Bracke, 1876), by Johann Joseph Most (page images at HathiTrust)

• The tale of my exile (Arya Office, 1922), by Barindra Kumar Ghosh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Za poli︠a︡rnym krugom : desi︠a︡tʹ let ssylki v Kolymske (Gosizdat, 1925), by G. V. T︠S︡yperovich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Viermal entflohen (J.H.W. Dietz, 1907), by L. G. Deĭch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aus den sibirischen Bleibergwerken : unedierte Briefe des zu lebenslänglicher Zwangsarbeit verurtheilten russischen Professors Vaszilij Jakszakov, mit den Zeichnungen und dem Autogramm des Verurtheilten (S. Cronbach, 1892), by Vasiliĭ I︠A︡ksakov (page images at HathiTrust)

• Iz ti͡uremnykh vospominaniĭ (Gos. izd-vo, 1924), by L. A. Volkenshteĭn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Viermal entflohen (J.H.W. Dietz, 1921), by L. G. Deĭch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aus den sibirischen Bleibergwerken : unedierte Briefe des zu lebenslänglicher Zwangsarbeit verurtheilten russischen Professors Vaszilij Jakszakov, mit den Zeichnungen und dem Autogramm des Verurtheilten. (S. Cronbach, 1893), by Vasiliĭ I︠A︡ksakov (page images at HathiTrust)

• Army memoirs of Lucius W. Barber, Company "D", 15th Illinois volunteer infantry. May 24,1861, to Sept. 30, 1865. (The J. M. W. Jones stationery and printing co., 1894), by Lucius W. Barber (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Stolen Years (Cleveland: Pennington Press, c1959), by Roger Touhy, contrib. by Ray Brennan (page images at HathiTrust)

• NCO experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq (U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy, 2007), by US Army Sergeants Major Academy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ten thousand miles on a bicycle (Kron, 1887), by Karl Kron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Three years' hunting and trapping in America and the great North-west (MacLure, 1888), by J. Turner-Turner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Linus Pauling Research Notebooks, by Linus Pauling (page images at Oregon State)

• Ten thousand miles on a bicycle (Kron, 1887), by Karl Kron (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Baca to Beulah : sequel to "Valley of Baca" (Garrigues Brothers, 1885), by Jennie Smith and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spaziergang nach Nordamerika: Reiseerlebnisse zur Belehrung und Unterhaltung (Herder, 1880), by Chrysostomus Stangl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Streif- und Jagdzüge durch die Vereinigten Staaten Nordamerikas (H. Costenoble, 1800), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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